LED 350 Leadership for Change

Focusing on leadership as a relational and ethical process of working with others to create positive change, this course is centered on the intersection of leadership and change theories.   Identifying authentic challenges in our community provides the context for studying and applying relational and learning centered leadership to the human-centered problem solving processes.  Students will develop and begin implementing innovative approaches for social or behavior change.  

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Students must have successfully completed LED 210.

Course Types

LED Studies minor elective; ELR for Leadership

Offered

• Fall

1. Along the way, as a student you will:
   • curate your curiosity;
   • identify passions and purpose for your leadership;
   • authentically and objectively identify problems or opportunities for improvement;
   • create an audacious vision for change;
   • chart exciting opportunities to accomplish the change you desire;
   • build strong mentoring networks; and
   • engage in habits of reflection and renewal, practices that support leadership throughout your life.
   
   By the end of the semester, as a student you will:
   • Understand how relational and ethical leadership theories (i.e. Relational, Social Change, Adaptive, etc.) intersect with the practices of design thinking and systemic change.
   • Employ design thinking principles and systems change to effectively understand a problem, work with others to design/identify change efforts, and implement a change initiative.
   • Demonstrate leadership and learning by seeking critical feedback and using the information gathered (or your failures, flops, or oops) to develop new approaches for creating social change.
   • Reflect critically on the desired social change and your leadership (strengths, challenges, successes or failures).